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SCARLET FEVER (SCARLATINA).
The cases certified numbered 362, including two which were found subsequently
not to be suffering from the disease. The deaths numbered 15. The numbers of cases
and deaths in previous years are contained in the following table:—

The death-rate from scarlet fever was 0.12 per 1,000 inhabitants, as compared
with 016 for last year. The rate was highest in the New Town Registration District
and lowest in Haggerston. People were attacked in Shoreditch with scarlatina at the
rate of 2.9 per 1,000 inhabitants, the attack rate being 2.6 in Shoreditch South, 2.9 in
Hoxton New Town, 3.2 in Hoxton Old Town, and 3 0 in Haggerston.
The case mortality was slightly lower than in 1898, 1897, and 1896, 4.1 per cent.
of the cases terminating fatally, as against 4.7, 4.9, and 54 in the latter three years
respectively. Of 131 children unde. five years of age who were attacked, 12, or 9.1
per cent., died, as compared with 7.7 per cent. in 1898, 11 per cent. in 1897, and 12
per cent. in 1896. Amongst those over five years of age who were attacked, the
mortality was 1.3 per cent., as compared with 2.5 per cent in 1898, and 1 per cent.
in 1897.
In the subjoined table are set forth the distribution of the cases certified, and the
deaths amongst males and females in the parish and its four sub-districts:—